lego bust

[Mr Greeble]

Does anyone know of a good design for a Lego bust for a mansion or whatnot? Thanks!

[deraven]

Just to be clear... are you looking for a life-sized bust for a "real" mansion, or a minifig scale bust for a Lego mansion?

Assuming it's the latter... I thought I had seen some in the interiors or some of the various mansions that had been posted (like one of the Wayne Manors or something), but I can't seem to find any now.

Offhand, my thought would be 1x2 or 2x2 jumper plate as the base, or a 2x2 dish, with a flat or round 1x1 plate connecting it to the center of the base of the bust for the base. For the bust itself, a 1x3 plate with a cheese slope on either side for the "shoulders" of the bust, either just 1x1 plates in the center or use something like a plate with clip to give it more detail (if it's supposed to be Mozart with a cravat or something), and then the head with any hair/hat or official neckwear. Obviously all in white, grey, or metallic to give it a stone or cast look, if that's what you're going for. If the "chest" part was just slopes and 1x1s, you could print a decal with very basic detailing to help sell it a bit more.

That's a bit wider than it should be, but might look OK. The other thing you could do would be to use a minifig torso and head, pop the arms off, and try to conceal a bit of the torso in the base for the bust. That might look more awkward overall, though.

Hadn't given it a thought before, but now I'm interested to see what folks have come up with for this!

[sonicstarlight]

I did very simple ones that are just a head on a 2x2 dish. Click here to see them. I agree with deraven that it would be difficult to get much of a torso on one at minifig scale.

[Mr Greeble]

thanks! I did indeed mean for minifigure size, sorry about that. Thanks for the tips.

[Slegengr]

I have seen some cool-looking busts made by placing a minifigure helmet/hat/hair on a microfigure. I plan to incorporate this style in a build of mine, so I thought it might be worth a suggestion.

[-Carson Haupt-]

Here's one I've done:

Clue 060 by Carson Haupt, on Flickr

[deraven]

I did very simple ones that are just a head on a 2x2 dish. Click here to see them. I agree with deraven that it would be difficult to get much of a torso on one at minifig scale.

That works much better than I'd expect it to! Having them on the somewhat ornate pedestals makes a big difference, and with the contrasting color the 2x2 dish echoes the general shape of the top of a minifig torso. Nice.

Here's one I've done:

Clue 060 by Carson Haupt, on Flickr

Ah yes, that's pretty close to what I was getting at with my textual description. I like the look of that, too, for a more robust... bust.

And going the other way with it, I've also seen just a plain microfig used, but depending on how you'd be placing it in a setting it can look more like a statuette than a bust. Combining one with a regular headpiece as Slegengr mentioned sounds interesting. I haven't seen that before.

I think I may bust out some bricks tonight and play around with some ideas.

(Sorry about the puns- maybe I need sleep more than MOCing...)

[Slegengr]

Don't get busted for busting busted-out bust bricks!

Seriously, I like what Carson Haupt did, though usually busts are only the shoulders up, so I think the cheese slopes should be flipped over to slope from the neck down and away from the head. Just my 2 cents.

[deraven]

Seriously, I like what Carson Haupt did, though usually busts are only the shoulders up, so I think the cheese slopes should be flipped over to slope from the neck down and away from the head. Just my 2 cents.

I was headed in that direction myself, but busts that just hit the shoulders but leave off the arms, or only sculpt the neckline of the torso are fairly common as well so I'm sure that's what Carson was going for:

http://preview.turbosquid.com/Preview/2014/05/20__02_30_20/thumb0001.jpg978b4f12-e484-4a2c-a625-79dea5446b7bOriginal.jpg

Personally, after playing with it a bit I think that cheese slopes in either orientation are just a little too big unless they were somehow attached to less than a brick-width between them. When you think about it, minifig heads and torsos are really strangely proportioned compared to the rest of the Lego system (and, of course, actual humans!).